One story listed the military leaders let go under Trump II. All had ties to the military's drone warfare development, a space recently targeted by the Trump boys, Don Jr. and Eric.
General CQ Brown was no longer good enough for Trump II but worked out fine for drone maker Powerus (a Trump/Dominari investment) and tech focused Shield Capital.
Changing leaders in order to change programs that changes contractors to benefit the Trump boys, now that would take AI to track. Or would it? Trump II claims to be transparent and accessible.
TechGod Eric Schmidt is also in the military drone space. There may be room enough for both the Trump boys and various TechGods and there may not.
Will Dan Driscoll head back to Flex Capital or will another Washington, D.C. based private equity underwriter (PEU) land his services? John Phelan went back to Rugger Management LLC after his Navy Chief stint under Trump II.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one.
Their sons shall be far richer than their fathers in today's PEU world, where all the lines are blurred.
Update 9-4-26: Axios wrote about the tech side of Driscoll's resignation and other personnel moves. The former Army Chief of Staff now works at Snowpoint Ventures. They have a drone affiliate, Shield AI, that is achieving success in Ukraine.
NYT noted the pattern of military chiefs going to work for investment firms.
The Pentagon gave 3 million military associated people access to ChatGPT and GrokAI.
